Wendy T. Novotne handles a wide range of business and legal issues, including data protection and privacy, real estate, marketing, fair lending, and consumer financial matters.

She researches and provides legal analysis and evaluation of all federal and state regulatory requirements, new regulations, recent judicial actions, and pending legislation related to business practices.

Before joining Ballard Spahr, Ms. Novotne was a regulatory compliance officer with Prospect Mortgage LLC. She also was a legal fellow at the California Monitor Program, a program of the California Attorney General's Office, where she handled more than 450 consumer complaints related to mortgage servicing and loss mitigation issues.